Archive for April, 2012

April 19th, 2012

Sesame Street Cake Pops

I would like to start things off with a little humor…

Funny Cake Ball Incident HERE

Can you guess what my favorite line in her story was!?

Moving onward to more important things, like Sesame Street and cake pops.

Bakerella originally created a really cute set of these characters for the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street…

I took a little different approach and made them with coconut. Coconut fur.

These were time consuming. However, if you prep your tools (coconut, noses, mouths, etc.) beforehand, they are really not terribly difficult! Now, if this is your first time with cake pops, take a look at this first.

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April 9th, 2012

Behind the Scenes: 2000 Cake Balls!

You may remember back in March I had a huge cake ball project.

HUGE, as in 2000+ cake balls!

That’s roughly 55 regular sized cakes (9×13″ pans).

Or about 12 full sheet cakes! Plus a whole lotta frosting.

Not to mention approximately 66 POUNDS of CANDIQUIK! Holy moly.

These cake bites fed the guests that attended the 2012 Taste of the Timberwolves, a benefit dinner supporting the Timberwolves FastBreak Foundation.

A unique and great opportunity!

The pictures below will give you an inside peak at what “operation 2000 cake balls” looked like!

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April 4th, 2012

(Easy) White Chocolate Raspberry Petit Fours

 

Sometimes I have a hard time focusing on one thing for a long period of time.

I’ll be writing a blog post and go to check who commented on my last status update. 10 times.

I’ll be in the middle of baking cookies and think to myself, “I should really bleach my whites…”

I’ll check the yahoo home page to find out that Ryan Gosling saved a woman’s life, then I begin to think of Kristan’s “Hey girl..” photos.

And don’t even get me started on Pinterest…it inspires and stresses me out at the same time.

Please tell me this is somewhat normal. Or maybe I have ADD. For real.

 

But sometimes this can be a good thing. Like when you buy these…

 

and end up with this…


True story! Try it.

Mmm, cherry vanilla.

Now, how about those petit fours pictured way up there!?

What is a petit four anyways?! A tiny cake. A tiny, multi-layered cake enrobed in a vanilla coating (in this case). YUM!

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